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SHIMEK, WAGNER TO RECEIVE CAMPUS-COMMUNITY AWARDS |
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November 10, 2010
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Grove City College Florence E. MacKenzie Campus-Community Awards selection committee has chosen senior student Jonathan R. Wagner and local landscaper Jill Moore Shimek as the 2010 recipients.
Campus honoree Wagner, a member of the Grove City College Class of 2011, reaches out from campus to serve community youth. He has been heavily involved in the ministry of YoungLife, building many relationships with teenage students. He helped found and currently serves as team leader of Grove City Middle School WyldLife, the middle school branch of Young Life. For the past two years, he has tutored at the Middle School daily and has volunteered his time to students at the YMCA Teen Center and at other community events.
On campus, Wagner is an international business major with a religion minor. He is part of the Alpha Omega housing group, currently serving as its social chair and chaplain. He also works with the Business Department in planning for future campus speakers. A native of Wexford, Pa., he is the son of Robert ’80 and Judith Wagner.
Community honoree Shimek has been beautifying both the campus and the community for many years. On campus, she designs and installs landscaped areas, helps maintain existing landscaping and takes personal interest in researching design projects, including looking into the original Olmstead campus landscape plans. According to a nominator, she seeks to install landscapes that “minimize the time to maintain them while maximizing the added beauty.”
Her community work can be seen in the landscape and floral work of Grove City Revitalization’s streetscape. While a vendor for the installation, she volunteered many hours to select the correct species of plants and trees for the project. A Grove City native, Shimek started her company, Landscape Design, more than 20 years ago. It is based on Miller Avenue in Grove City.
The two winners will be honored at a ceremony on campus on Nov. 16.
In 1971, Florence E. MacKenzie, wife of Grove City College president Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie, sought to cultivate the relationship between the College and the Grove City Borough community. Her efforts and involvement included serving as president of Grove City Woman’s Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Women’s Bowling League, secretary of the local United Way and president the Grove City Hospital Board of Trustees, where she oversaw the merger of the Bashline/Rossman and Grove City Hospitals, today known as the Grove City Medical Center.
Following her death in December 1981, President MacKenzie created the Campus-Community Awards to honor her vision and effort and appointed a committee to seek nominations of qualified individuals from both areas whose volunteer efforts embodied the spirit of her work. The awards have been presented since 1983.
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